Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

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Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update.

Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later.

The American Copyright Protection Act aims to force ISPs, DNS resolvers, and VPNs to cut off access to foreign piracy sites

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

From 2025.

GTA 6 is getting a $400 collector’s set filled with Vice City-themed goodies, but it won’t include a copy of the game.

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tl;dr: Proxmox or bare metal? Containers yes/no? What is your use case?

I used a Dell R710 when I first started self-hosting, it ran ESXi with one VM for each service I wanted. Restarting the server required me to first shutdown each VM in order and then the whole host. When setting up a new service to host I had to create a new VM (allocate RAM, disk etc), install the OS (I ran Debian) and then follow instructions for how to setup the service. This mostly was not a problem but one software I never managed to get working was Apache Guacamole.

Nowadays I have a Dell Optiplex I salvaged for parts, got a new case and all my HDDs from my R710. Because it has much less RAM and an old Intel i5 (6th or 7th generation), I decided to get into Docker. With Docker containers you write your compose file and it will just work. No more need to dig through documentation for which version of a dependency to use, how to handle if two services on the same host need different versions (this was part of the reason for one VM/service). With Docker, I can try out a software in seconds and have it configured to my liking in minutes.

Today I have NixOS (bare metal) and it comes with Podman which uses systemd. Hence restarting my OS (albeit not that often, almost never unless I mess up my config) is a no-brainer because Podman via systemd will manage everything. Adding, stopping or removing containers in general is easy. I have a script running as a service which will stop a container, create a BTRFS subvolume snapshot, start the service again and start borg backup to backup from the snapshot.

For me using Proxmox would just an extra layer of complexity I don’t need. I only have one server and I am the only user.

Questions:

• Do you use Proxmox instead of a bare metal installation?
• Do you use containers or do you install manually?
• What is you use case that requires your setup the way it is?

Hi y’all looking for advice here

I selfhost a nextcloud server and a NAS for backups, and one of my challenges has been data corruption after power failures.

I went and bought some consumer UPS units about 5 years ago, which helped, but now the batteries are starting to fail, and I’m not protected from power outages until I replace them.

I have the router on UPS as well so the computers can communicate with each other that the power has failed and it is time to gracefully shut down (using NUT).

However the router itself uses quite a bit of power and I am hoping to make a smarter decision this time around when getting a UPS.

The router’s power supply is 12V5A with a barrel style jack, so i have been searching for “DC UPS 12V 5A” to try and find something compatible that wastes less energy converting from battery DC to AC for the power supply to then convert back to DC.

But the only thing I’ve been able to find are these units designed to power electric doors: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D8VLPRN2/

I’m not sure if this would even be safe to use with a router, and i don’t know how i would wire it up to the router either.

I think i just don’t have enough knowledge to know how to shop for an appropriate DC UPS, or if such a thing even exists.

Anyone been in a similar situation?

yeah. yeah. being held.

it was only later on in the drawing that i noticed that i… may have picked colors from a certain flag by accident. whoops.

i wish you a wonderful day in which you feel a bit held, even if just emotionally

“erm achumally it’s called gender dysphoria if he is indeed your chud son ☝️🤓”

also shoutout to this comment LMAO

Microsoft has filed for a new patent that describes a credit system to “rent” software and games, including rate-limited rentals based on the type of use. In their examples, singleplayer costs more than training mode, but multiplayer costs more credits than both. Users can ‘earn’ credits by subjecting themselves to more advertisements during loading screens, round win or loss screens, and level loading screens. The patent technology can be applied at the application level, OS level, and device level, making it wide-reaching and affecting more than just Windows machines. In one instance, Microsoft explicitly names Smart TVs. This would be similar, in some ways, to ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) on LG or other Smart TVs, where the patent-pending technology could scan the screen and audio.

OK, sometimes you have to fight the odds, push technology to the limit to make the unimaginable possible to achieve something great.
But I still do net see the benefit of putting data centers into space. Even after solving all those problems that are mentioned by the article, what is the upside compared to just building a data center with solar panels and a big battery down on earth? Even powering them with gas turbines seems to be more environment friendly and cost efficient than shooting thousands of rockets into space and have the data centers burn up in the atmosphere after 6 years.

anyone else feel that AI has sucked all joy out of the open source world?

i used to scroll fdroid when I’m bored and it was so exciting sometimes

Very confused, is this all BS?

“Confer, the private AI chatbot launched by Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike, uses that Nvidia-based TEE setup— along with an authentication system…”

“Meta, too, uses a TEE to offer a more private version of the Meta AI chatbot included in WhatsApp—a privacy system that Confer’s Marlinspike has said he is helping Meta to develop.”

This feels too good to be true and I am surprised this article is the first i am hearing about the relationship between Marlinspike and Meta for this product.

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/71273423

cross-posted from: reddthat.com/post/70898368

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About a week ago, I created a post detailing a web index I was working on.

I’ve implemented a few policy changes, after realizing I want this to be more like a library than a search engine.

I remember walking through library shelves as a kid, finding all the subjects I could learn about fascinating. And I’d really like to recreate that experience with this site. An infinitely scrollable catalog that transitions from subject to subject to subject, treating individual domains as books, with rankings (0-9) determined by a mixture of author authority and cultural relevance.

Current Plans:

• I’m removing the index.json requirement, and allowing users to simply submit domains for inclusion within the catalog.
• Domains are sorted via an alphanumeric XXX.XXX.XXX format (so cultural anthropology would be SCI.ANT.CUL)
• I also have plans to put the entire catalog on IPFS, for public accountability.
• I’m also no longer referring to it as an index, but a catalog.

You could even have a plethora of local results: USA.KTY.BWG, DEU.BER.MIT

Here is the current UX: imgur.com/a/QdXTmbz I’m looking for suggestions to make it a better experience. The name is just a placeholder.

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